So i just started playing D.va and she’s a stupid amount of fun. However, I honestly cannot think of a single reason to play her over other heroes. Need a flanker? Doomfist and Genji will pick off healers and such way better. Need a tank? Rein and Orisa for defence, Zarya and hog for offence. She’s such a big target and does so little damage it’s laughable, even with rockets at point blank it takes over 3 seconds of constant firing to kill someone. You can’t even dive and get back out fast because of her boosters cool down, and her hitbox is just massive for what she can do. In all my time playing, i have only ever died to a D.va as a Mercy. Please give me some tips and reasons to play her, as i do want to get better with her since she’s so much fun. Thanks!
I’d only dive if I have team mates are diving with me but I usually hang with my group for strength in numbers. The only other dive is when I need to bail a team mate out and be their shield when they have low HP or when guarding Mercy res.
My only tip is to watch your HP and stick with your team. I’ve seen too many D.Va players rush in and get wrecked over and over again. Try not to use your skills (boost and matrix) unless you need to. You never know when you need it and it’s the kit to bail you and your team out.
You need to be super careful if they have a Zarya, because you feed her ult charge like crazy. Its even worse when people try and play D.Va like Winston.
D.Va is really good at peeling for her fellow support players.
Yeah, D.VA is actually the best hero in the game to one trick. She can substitute for any other off-tank, so the real question is always “why play [blank] over D.VA?”
She’s a good all around hero imo. She does fairly decent dmg, has good mobility can body block and D matrix to defend the team, stopping some attacks that no one else can. I would say she’s not great at anything, but she’s a good filler for a team that’s lacking in an area.
She can harass phara but not really kill her. She can clear the point with a Dva bomb but not really hold it etc. She’s amazing at protecting tanks and support from flankers and so on.
If anything she’s just the better version of hammond.
She is still the most versatile hero in the game.
Great damage, great survivability, most consistent method of peeling for teammates, great mobility.
Unless beam heroes become meta, I do not see D.Va dropping into unviability any time soon.
What do you mean “Great damage”? Roadhog has about the same range and quadruple the damage.
Defence matrix has the highest possible damage mitigation in the game, I think. Pharah ult is a typical example, a close second being graviton, in an indirect way.
Roadhog is inconsistent. His gun either one shots or does nothing.
D.Va has consistent damage. Her missiles are also great.
She provides a lot more utility for her team when compared to Hog.
I agree, but if she can’t kill or be a tank what’s the point of being fast? Defence matrix seems to be her only good ability. Honestly, attack mercy has more damage then D.va.
Hi! It sounds like you’re new to the game which is great!
D.va is a super strong pick in a bunch of situations. One of D.va’s strongest points is her mobility, this makes her a really great compliment to Winston, as they both have the ability to quickly “dive” into the enemy team to try and secure kills on low-hp enemies.
D.va has also seen a lot of play with Orisa because Orisa can generally hold her own, which allows D.va to support her own team with her matrix or boop, or D.va can help pressure the enemy backline because her mobility allows her to get in and out relatively easily.
D.va is generally weaker with Rein, just because Rein and Zarya work so well together, but it’s definitely do-able if you play her like you would with Orisa.
As for the other tanks, you generally don’t want to pick D.va with them because Roadhog and Zarya are considered off-tanks and so is D.va. Having two off tanks and no main tank (Winston, Rein, Orisa) means your team will generally struggle to push past the enemy frontline because you won’t have enough of an HP buffer or a shield to create space.
The best tip I can give when you’re starting to learn D.va is to practice managing your defense matrix. D.va doesn’t have nearly as much matrix as she used to, so you need to make sure the times you’re using it really count. After about a minute or two, I start holding my matrix to make sure I’ll have it up once enemy ults start coming out. D.va can completely negate a number of ults like grav, death blossom, high noon, visor, and more if she has her Matrix up, which means it’s really important that you don’t waste it on random spam damage.
Well, i’m not really new (150 hours or so) but thank for the tips! Would someone mind coming into A qp game with me so they can see what i’m doing wrong?
Also, you’ll probably hear about melee canceling and other really nuanced D.va tricks. Honestly don’t bother trying to learn things like that until you’ve really gotten down the basics of the character. Then you can start practicing the min/maxing stuff. It’ll save you a lot of hassle and confusion when you’re learning her! (Or any hero)
Defense Matrix offers virtually infinite amounts of damage mitigation when it is used.
D. Va has incredible mobility and burst damage.
Hammond doesn’t have Defense Matrix and honestly he’s just a massive, massive target.
Like if I had to personally choose between the two I would go with D. Va every time. Of course I AM just used to playing her more.
Honestly when it comes to who is a better, more versatile off tank D. Va is the queen of them all. She synergizes well with almost everyone and when it comes to dive comp she is wayyy better than Hammond rn.
Idk we gotta see how things play out and if Hammond will improve at all but D. Va is just strong
Why do people keep saying she has good damage? I haven’t gotten a single solo kill for a few games now and only manage assists from a distance. Only get around 200-500 damage per life and one or two assists. Also, how do you keep shooting someone after running into them with your boosters? They always seen to get put behind me and it takes a bit to find them again.
You might just have bad aim if that is the case, she still has very high burst dmg up close while using missiles.
Yea, i do suck at aiming. That’s why I mostly play support and characters like doomfist and Pharah.
Well idk what to tell ya then, she has great burst dmg, and does more overall dmg per game than many dps heroes according to overbuff. Hanzo, junkrat, solider, bastion, pharah are the only dps heroes doing more dmg, while she also does more than every other tank.
There’s a reason. I like playing D.va winkyface
She’s an off tank that can eat ults and infinite damage for a very short amount of time. She also has incredible mobility and deals decent damage at close/medium range (along with infinite ammo).
She’s essentially a cross between Hammond and Zarya in terms of her role. Protect allies when necessary - even if it means using her mech as a shield (when it breaks, it stays in place and absorbs infinite damage for about 2 seconds). Chase after critically low enemies. Spam MB1 into any and all groups, especially if you’re tagging a Mercy to stop her selfheal from activating.
She offers a different form of tanking than Zarya, and is definitely more of a tank than Roadhog/Hammond (who are more about keeping themselves alive to deal damage more so than tanking for allies).